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kaizen | Adaptive Run Training
Run Kaizen · 90 ratings · ★ 2.9
2.9
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90 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 28 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"strava"
5 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I don't have a strava account, but you can't proceed with installation unless you authorize connection with your strava account..." - Tom F
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"crashes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "paid for subscription but now just crashes upon opening every time" - Jack Staines
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"every"
5 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "paid for subscription but now just crashes upon opening every time" - Jack Staines
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"times"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I can't understand why you would pay so much for an app that's only real function is to predict times. Thought it would help map out topline volume planning for a training cycle but it doesn't even do this. Poor interface also doesn't help." - Darin Middleton
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"doesn"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Latest update broke the miles conversion. Units change but the value doesn't. The concept behind this app is neat, but it's incredibly sluggish on Android and the massive intra-week swings in mileage targets make it effectively useless for …" - Kevin Fronczak
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"week"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Latest update broke the miles conversion. Units change but the value doesn't. The concept behind this app is neat, but it's incredibly sluggish on Android and the massive intra-week swings in mileage targets make it effectively useless for …" - Kevin Fronczak
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"account"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I don't have a strava account, but you can't proceed with installation unless you authorize connection with your strava account..." - Tom F
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"phone"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The app keep crashing on my Poco F3 phone, so unfortunately need to uninstall" - Firdaus Md Ali
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"impossible"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "app does not connect, impossible to create an account.... uninstalled" - marcelin Nebenhaus
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"access"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "the ui is just trash feel like if i had access. to the code for a week i could do a better job - and yes i am a software developer that hates writing uis not sure what the donut represents and what you need me to do to fill it it says if i …" - Mark Davies
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"goal"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "the ui is just trash feel like if i had access. to the code for a week i could do a better job - and yes i am a software developer that hates writing uis not sure what the donut represents and what you need me to do to fill it it says if i …" - Mark Davies
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"free"
3 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "the ui is just trash feel like if i had access. to the code for a week i could do a better job - and yes i am a software developer that hates writing uis not sure what the donut represents and what you need me to do to fill it it says if i …" - Mark Davies
📋 All 28 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
I can't understand why you would pay so much for an app that's only real function is to predict times. Thought it would help map out topline volume planning for a training cycle but it doesn't even do this. Poor interface also doesn't help.
I don't have a strava account, but you can't proceed with installation unless you authorize connection with your strava account...
The app keep crashing on my Poco F3 phone, so unfortunately need to uninstall
paid for subscription but now just crashes upon opening every time
app does not connect, impossible to create an account.... uninstalled
It didn't detect my races in Strava even after I tagged them and updated the title like Kaizen said. The predictions seemed way off because of that so I just uninstalled it.
the ui is just trash feel like if i had access. to the code for a week i could do a better job - and yes i am a software developer that hates writing uis not sure what the donut represents and what you need me to do to fill it it says if i out in more effort then it fills more then why is it a distance goal im so confused, feel like it needs an into or an example. some sort of free version of the app would help immensely even if it was slimmed down because having to pay 80£ a year is too muc
2 mins off prediction 5k. Said 17.16, Iran 15.10 just a week later. Has access to all my data. 1 star seems mean, but the entire point is to predict times so.....
Poorly designed, a rather pointless app tbh
Asks for phone number and then never competes initial analysis
tried the free trial and nothing works. poor experience
app wouldn't start. canceling subscription
App is closing by itself tried installing multiple times but after login it is closing and not responding making it un useful.NEED IMPROVEMENT
Constantly crashes. Hopefully gets fixed soon.
Can't connect it to strava
I should have deleted the app as soon as it asked for my phone number. Seriously, before worrying about whether or not people are going to steal your app you should worry about making an app that is functional. Got asked about 10000 times to authorize my Strava. Which set me back to the home screen every time I was playing with the settings. And as soon as I set a goal the whole thing glitched out (with a spelling mistake in the error message 🤦).
Doesn't work
Just keeps closing so can't use it to try it
Downloaded because it was promoted by the marathon ill be running, but the app is dogwater. Trying to set the date and time goal was nigh impossible. Each time i scrolled past August to set it to September it just bounced back. Also, the UI is very bad.
It just crashes every time. Impossible to use 🙄
Couldn't even get it to open. It just kept crashing.
Just don't work, crashes constantly
Why do you *require* my telephone number? Why can't I use my email address to register an account like 99.999% of other services?
Latest update broke the miles conversion. Units change but the value doesn't. The concept behind this app is neat, but it's incredibly sluggish on Android and the massive intra-week swings in mileage targets make it effectively useless for planning out a week. There's something interesting here, but the execution is lacking
Buggy
Highly flawed for interval training. I am a paid user, and emailed them 2x without a response, so need to let others know before they would purchase. Let's say you do 10x 1 mile track workout at 6:30/mile pace with 90 seconds standing recovery. Kaizen views that as you lite jogging at 8:00/mile pace and punishes your score. Unless you stop your watch after every interval, Kaizen is way off. These are pre-programmed rest breaks in Coros, so stopping my watch is not an option. Garbage prediction.
This thing crashes every time I open it. Its almost not usable.
Nice presentation, but inaccurate prediction and unhelpful advice (for me anyway). Despite having access to all my Strava data, it's predicting a half-marathon time about 10 minutes slower than I could confidently run at present. And it's not cheap. Looked good at first but unfortunately I don't think the algorithms are up to the job. Garmin watch or Luke Humphrey Running race predictor are much more accurate, and free (once you have the watch!)
Sentiment summary
42%
Positive (4-5★)
9%
Neutral (3★)
49%
Negative (1-2★)